Example sentences of "[subord] the [noun] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pros and cons of which financial saviour should be favoured — a bid led by the American company Sikorsky , or a European consortium including British Aerospace — need not concern us here , because to dwell unduly upon them would be like treating the assassination of an archduke in Sarajevo as the cause rather than the trigger for the First World War . |
| 2 | He come to the remarkable conclusion that Ardakke was nothing less than the setting for the next evolutionary step for mankind . |
| 3 | Actium , and Octavian 's victory in Egypt the following year , provided the occasion for the last great triumph in the Republican style . |
| 4 | Wallace 's Geographical Distribution of Animals of 1876 provided the model for the next generation of naturalists studying biogeography . |
| 5 | ( vi ) If the date for the first review is fixed 17 years after sentence , the prisoner is told that this does not necessarily mean that the period for retribution and deterrence has been set at 20 years . |
| 6 | ‘ If the indicators for the first quarter remain flat or suggest a further fall in output , then the time will have come for a further cut in interest rates , by another 1 per cent or more . ’ |
| 7 | In Barcelona and other localities the PSOE would need the IU as a coalition partner , while the PP for the first time won an overall majority in the city of Madrid . |
| 8 | These sharp increases will contrast with below-inflation rent rises of 95 pence a week in about 156 local authority areas , as the Government for the first time moves away from a single national rents policy for the 4.5 million council tenants in England . |
| 9 | London 's rate of population loss in the 1970s was virtually the same as the average for the next five cities ( Birmingham , Glasgow , Liverpool , Manchester , and Newcastle ) , so the relative gap between them changed little . |